LOCAL NEWS

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has presented a N410 billion 2024 budget to the House of Assembly for approval. Mr Soludo made the presentation on Tuesday at the Assembly Chambers in Awka. The budget recorded a 57.8 per cent increase from the N258.97 billion 2023 budget presented by the governor in November last year. […]

The Abia State Government has denied spending over N900 million on the feeding and welfare of Governor Alex Otti from July to September 2023. Earlier, reports emerged that a budget performance report indicated that the government spent N927 million within three months on refreshments and meals, allowance, settlement of honorarium and welfare packages. It was […]

The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated the State Deputy Governor, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim, on the occasion of his birthday celebration. This was contained in a release signed by the Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Christian Aburime. According to the release, governor Soludo noted that adding another year to one’s age […]

As the Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha prepares to celebrate his 70th birthday, Sir Victor Ononye,Journalist and Public Affairs Commentator,writes on his life and times. On Thursday,23rd November 2023,the grand finale of activities marking the 70th birthday of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha,Most Rev Valerian Maduka Okeke will take place at the Basilica of the Most […]

No fewer than thirty suspected Yahoo Boys and kidnappers have been arrested in Nnewi, Anambra State by operatives of Nnewi Vigilante Service. The arrest followed raid on two buildings in Obiofia, Nnewichi-Nnewi tagged, “Operation sweep” in line with the Vigilante policy of keeping Nnewi free from kidnappers, armed robbery, cyber crime (Yahoo Yahoo), exploitation of […]

The Special Anti-Touting Squad of Anambra State, SASA recently inaugurated by Governor Chukwuma Soludo, has arrested more touts in parts of Onitsha and environs in addition to more than six hundred they arrested in the first week of its operation. Its Director Mr. Solomon Onwuemene who spoke at the Squad base in Upper Iweka, Onitsha, […]

The Police in Anambra State have arrested major arms dealer dealing illegally on prohibited Firearms in the State. The breakthrough followed weeks of intensive surveillance by operatives of the Command. A statement by the Anambra state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga said that a total of twenty-three Automatic Pump Action Guns and six […]

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, on Friday, received his certificate of return in Owerri, the state capital, following last Saturday’s governorship election. In his speech, the governor congratulated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for “conducting the freest, fairest, and most peaceful election in the history of Imo State.” The state Returning Officer […]

CP Aderemi Adeoye, the Commissioner of Police in Anambra, has cautioned residents against taking laws into their own hands in the event of crime. Adeoye said the command would no longer condone situations when people engage in jungle justice by lynching suspects to death without trial. DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), […]

The Delta State Police Command has arrested four suspected armed robbers and recovered one AK-47 magazine in Agbor-Obi, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Asaba, the state capital. Edafe disclosed that the command recovered two locally […]